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ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
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Peter Gabriel: From Brideshead to Sunken Heads

John Hutchinson,
Musician,
July 1986

PETER AND I were at school together  at Charterhouse, an expensive private school in Surrey, of the variety the British perversely insist on calling "public". We were the same age, but in different "houses"  in other words, we lived in separate parts of the school  and we studied different subjects.

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